Word: patches
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Gosh, we have more fun backstage!" Miss Wiman--"Trink" to her intimates--exclaimed, "the kids are so darn swell. And Durante, he's just the sweetest guy. If anybody gets mad at him, it just breaks his heart. Why, he'll do anything to patch up a squabble. So now, whenever we want him to do anything for us, we just pretend to be sore...
Twenty years ago a patch-mustached Austrian nobleman, Captain Georg von Trapp, commander of an Austrian submarine, came home from the War to his family castle near Salzburg. There he and his buxom wife, Frau Maria Augusta, settled down to the serious business of raising their family. The family flourished. By 1921 it included seven small von Trapps; and there were more to come...
...MINSTRELS OF THE MINE PATCH, University of Pennsylvania Press...
Past the furrowed water of the Potato Patch, where the Atlantic currents sweep around Coney Island into Gravesend Bay in New York Harbor, seagoing, 23-year-old Cowboy William J. ("Tex") Langford poked the nose of a $100 put-put in which he had sputtered down from Boston. Moored just off the pier he tied up to was a slim, long yacht hull. The masts were off her, she could have done with some swabbing, but to Tex's longing eyes she was a jimdandy. To a benign-looking stranger gazing off to sea he said so. Then things...
Then frisky fate dealt Tex Langford as rude a bulldogging as any Panhandle dogie ever got. In over the Potato Patch whisked last week's hurricane (see p. 11) at week's end Tex's dream was jagged driftwood on the Gravesend strand...